This study is the largest population-based study to date to explore survival from pancreatic cancer among all age groups in a racially diverse population. Median survival was shorter than that reported from other series. Race/ethnicity did not have a significant effect on survival. However patients residing in poor neighborhoods were less likely to undergo resection and somewhat less likely to survive this disease.

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This paper focuses on the notion of environmental citizenship in examining how black and minority ethnic groups (BME) in Britain talk about environmental “rights” alongside environmental responsibilities. This broader discursive context leads us to engage with two interpretations of sustainability promoting different policy and planning agendas—the environmental sustainability and just sustainability policy agendas—in understanding the multiple spaces of identity, power and agency in which BME communities respond to environmental issues in institutional and daily life. We conducted ten semi‐structured interviews with community key informants and ten focus groups with African‐Caribbean or Indian communities. We identified four environmental responsibility discourses in the participants’ talk, that were variously defined by issues of trust, social equity, off‐loading of responsibility and government intervention and that served to shift environmental responsibility away from the individual onto “institutional others”. We conclude by suggesting policy implications for the environmental and sustainability policy and planning community.

We centred the research gaze on the cultural and ethnic interpretations of environmental dis/ engagement among black and minority ethnic groups, which has been under-explored in the UK literature on public participation. We conducted focus groups with black and minority ethnic communities and in-depth interviews with community representatives and key actors facilitating sustainability policy. We identified from our analysis the sub-themes of a 'different mindset' and 'self-empowering spaces' that demonstrated the contextual, diverse and contested perceptions and experiences of agency, empowerment and disempowerment in environmental behaviours and initiatives. Our conclusions draw on the implications of our findings for the environmental and sustainability policy and planning community.a rea_970 88..95Is there more to environmental participation than meets the eye? 95

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